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Writing from the Senses to Evoke Emotion - video

Pulitzer Prize winning writer Robert Olen Butler said, "We as writers are not intellectuals, we are sensualists." Author and writing teacher Georgia Lee strongly agrees with this sentiment and encourages new writers to use this approach in their writing. She recommends the following writing exercise to get started: Think of an event in your life and the emotion it evoked in you. Write a page or two about that event without using"I felt" or "I feel." Use your other senses including sight, smell...